hollydolly
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Dollar Tree carts with pole attached and senior citizens
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Thank you and video too great to see, here in the states people would be breaking into them stealing the money. The few stores I know of in the states that do make you pay a quarter for a buggy makes you come in and pay for one and bring your buggy back in to get your quarter too.
jimintoronto
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Here is how it works....Each cart has a coin slot on the handle bar. It also has a short chain that attaches to the next cart in the corral, when you return it. Put a 25 cent coin in the handle bar slot, and it releases the short chain. Go do your shopping. When you have loaded your stuff into your car, return the shopping cart to the corral, push the chain thingy into the next cart in the line, then remove your 25 cent coin. NO human attendant required.
The cost of finding and returning shopping carts is a big expense, so the supermarket companies, in conjunction with the municipalities, have introduced cart control systems, such as carts that have wheels that lock up, if you try to push them past the electronic barriers in the parking lot. The City of Mississauga ( population 850,000 people ) has a by law enforcement team that patrols the city, and if they find a shopping cart on city property, the store that owns the cart is fined $400 per cart. That encourages the retailers to make sure their carts are not leaving their property. JimB.
jimintoronto
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Just to point out.....The 25 cents that the customer inserts into the cart, is NOT staying there. So no one is going to break into a cart to get a 25 cent reward. Each customer puts in a coin, and later gets the same coin back. Its not like a piggy bank. Grin. JimB.
yes I do remember that, we have local stores(3) that still have a person help the ones that need it take bags to their car which is unheard of in this day and time. I hear "carry out" a lot when we go to this one store.
hollydolly
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it's not a quarter here in the UK..it's a whole pound coin....
jimintoronto
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Stores are not "keeping you out ". No one is standing at the door telling you that you can't come in the store. Your complaint is about their practice of controlling their valuable shopping carts. JimB.
Well it is staying there as long as the person is shopping and you would be surprised at what some people would do for 25Ā¢ lol lol . They are still spending tons of money on those coin things and electronic barriers and upkeep etc it just seems to me not to be cost effective to me and keeps a lot of people from shopping in their stores just my opinion.Thank you!
LOL and the value of there customers and the money they would be getting means nothing? Well we must agree to disagree. They are keeping me out, we both have walking issues and my husband uses a walker , my point is if there were a buggy in their lot I could get to or ask someone to get for me I could get it around to my husband and we could hold it and walk in and spend money in their store and there are many many many people just like us but like I said we will agree to disagree thank you.
Bring that back and sales will surely increase
But
maybe not enough to offset the added expense.....
hollydolly
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we have these disability scooters in UK supermarkets... hire them instore for free...
hollydolly
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we never had that here... we've never had grocery packers either, we've always been expected to bag and carry our own shopping..
yes here in bigger stores like walmart but that does not get you "IN" the store from your car understand? How do people struggling to walk get "in" to get the scooter is my point. I guess they don't and with more people aging they are losing money.we have these disability scooters in UK supermarkets... hire them instore for free...
hollydolly
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so lots of people with disabilities carry their own fold up mobility scooter in their car...
..and tbh with you, if you're too disabled to get from the car into the supermarket with an aid.. a scooter or some other help... it would be wiser to order online groceries and have them delivered.
hearlady
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hollydolly
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nope.. we're independent..lol... plus we've always used bags with handles to carry shopping, no need for flimsy paper bags to carry in our arms , so that another person has to do it for us.
Just a thought.. so if you have 50 people with bags at the checkout at the same time.. did they have to have 50 bag carriers ?
JustDave
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When I lived in the Pacific Northwest there was a grocery chain, Rosauers, that was really good about this, at least at my Rosaurers, in my small Montana town where all the check out lines had busy baggers that carried or carted your groceries to your car, and it didn't matter if you were elderly or young and in prime physical condition. Baggers were coming and going, and at busy times, an assistant manager or even store manger, would bag and carry my groceries.
And they all seemed happy to do it. It was kind of an odd store policy, and there was never a loose cart left in the parking lot. The store must have had some kind of personality test employees needed to pass. I never shopped in the other stores. That was 20 years ago. I don't know if it has changed.
hearlady
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Blast from the past!
Paco Dennis
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Wayne
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Per topic our DTree's (2) have both with and without the pole you just have to ask the cashier for it, they usually get you some help then to help you unload your purchases.
JustDave
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Aldis' business model seems to be low prices. They don't bag, but you can buy bags and bag your own at special counters on the way out, or you just end up with a shopping cart full of assorted items, but they seem to be intent on passing the savings onto customers. It's not as convenient, so there is a compromise.
I bought a foldable Car Caddy (from Aldis of course) that stays in my trunk at all times, which keeps items from rolling around on the way home. When I get home I finally bag my items from the caddy using old Aldis bags in a container next to my car's trunk so I can make the final trip to my house from the garage in at most two separate trips. I don't seem to mind it much.
I bought a foldable Car Caddy (from Aldis of course) that stays in my trunk at all times, which keeps items from rolling around on the way home. When I get home I finally bag my items from the caddy using old Aldis bags in a container next to my car's trunk so I can make the final trip to my house from the garage in at most two separate trips. I don't seem to mind it much.
Alizerine
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Unfortunately, they never seem to have a cart return near the handicap spaces. So far I can manage but it isn't always easy.
60 years ago, I was the "nice young grocery bagger" at Kroger.
Publix will often ask me if I need help getting to car and loading, but I politely decline.
Jules
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Keeping the parking lots clear of grocery carts is not the stores only reason. Theft of carts. Thatās big money for the stores. The homeless feel free to take them. They use them for their home base but also will push extras back there and then abandon them. We see it all the time. One city was considering a bylaw to fine the stores when carts left their properties.
@perplexed do you use a rollator? You could use it to get into the store, set a basket on the seat, and take it back to your car. Iāve seen people with large piles on them.
@perplexed do you use a rollator? You could use it to get into the store, set a basket on the seat, and take it back to your car. Iāve seen people with large piles on them.